On 9/18/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/18/07, Ian Tresman <ian2(a)knowledge.co.uk>
wrote:
I recall Director of NASA's Goddard Space
Center,
Columbia astronomer and Dartmouth earth
scientist, Robert Jastrow, criticizing part of
Carl Sagan's assessment of Worlds in Collision,
and concluded that "Here Velikovsky was the
better astronomer" [The New York Times (December 2, 1979)
I suspect this was intended as a monumental insult to Sagan rather
than any praise to Velikovsky.
-Matt
Yeah, unfortunately unless you know the history here (Sagan was
monumentally unpopular in his field, as popular as he was to the
public), it's easy to be confused.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com